Most recent revision is November 16, 2007.
E-ducate America
Educational Programs , Curricula, and Resources for
Home Schoolers, Charter Schools, and Classroom Innovation
We believe there is fundamentally nothing "wrong" with American education. In it's essential concepts, the system which set the worldwide standards of practice for total-population literacy since the early 1600s is still alive and well. We believe any apparent problems are the result of an operational divergence between its broad mission and the means by which it is currently funded and directed on a political level and judged in its performance.
One of the major problems we see is attempting to judge the autonomous educational systems of 50 different political entities (the states) by a etherial federal standard when the federal system has neither constitutional mandate nor authority to participate in the government of education. There are no national standards, nor should there be any, for content or educational practice. Yet all schools and school districts are graded by performance on "standardized tests" (which are anything but "standardized") and to educate their students using "standardized texts" which may or may not inform or conform to the knowledge base required by those tests.
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site is currently displayed as a demonstration model and is something
less than eight percent complete. Its intent is to provide a
glimpse of what can be available and how it might be organized once it
is fully developed and populated. Allow me to take you on a brief
guided tour. When you complete this page, please click on the link at the bottom.
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In a few words, we see the broadest purpose of public education as; “ ... to pass on best and the brightest elements of a broad social culture to its future generations." This includes to both our children and to any others, children or adults, who wish to become members of that society, the skills necessary for both physical and cultural survival." Other educators bring that definition closer to the ground by saying that each student needs to: " ... have the opportunity possess and apply the necessary skills to become a participating, self-supporting, active member of the diverse cultures which both effect each of us as individuals and make up "our" society."
Neither of these definitions identify what the "necessary" skills might be and where the responsibility and authority resides to identify them to the level of the individual. It was accomplished easily in the nineteenth century when average individuals lived the greater part of their life within 100 miles of where they were born. The important skills in the early 1800s were defined by the needs of an agricultural economy. But starting in about 1850, a shift changed those needs toward urban living and the needs of the industrial revolution. The rest, if you will forgive the pun, is History!
We, as a society, can no longer educate only to immediate local or regional needs. Whether we like it or not, we are deeply into the Information Age and our "playing field" is multi-cultural and global. At the same time, we must understand that we still need to meet immediate local concerns while preparing the individual for the societal and fiscal changes which are cuasing individuals to meet the demands of six or seven career paths, perhaps in several different cultures, over the course of a half century or more.
The skills that are primary to today's students, those which will enable them to become " ... participating, self-supporting, active members of the diverse cultures ... are basic learning skills which will enable them as life-long learners.
Which is the underlying mission of E-ducate America.
Send us an e-mail to tell us what interests you in the area of education
and what you would like to see us doing to help you over the next few months.
and what you would like to see us doing to help you over the next few months.
Click on this link for the site map (directory) of this domain
E-ducate America is an exempt-purpose subsidiary of The IVE League, Incorporated, a federally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. Integrated Vocational Education (IVE) is a unique learning program with a major emphasis on the development and distribution of curricula and materials which blend academic education and career (vocational) training into thematic learning units for presentation to the same students, in the same classrooms, at the same time. The IVE League was founded in 1984.
As an adjunct activity, The IVE League also provides Internet-based fund raising services (including specialized fund management) to traditional schools, charter schools, and scholastic research, as well as to other registered community-based nonprofit organizations.
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